The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-10-06

Warrenton Gazette: An enthusiast
tic farmer remarked the other day that
Warren ought to have a farmers insti-
tute every three months. There is
hope for this man: ~"
Reidsville Weekly: There neve was
an hour in the history of the country
when there was as few hogs in it as to-
day. This is the only weak spot in
our agricultural armor.
Germanton Times: A Russian Pa
cifc railroad is contemplated, and five
years are necessary to build the line.
When finished the world can be trav=
ersed in fifty-three days. >'1''
L~aurenburg EncAonge: A Northern
capitalist, named Vernon, has become
interested in Durham county, and has
bought 1000 acres Of land there, on
whick he intends to establish a colony.
Wilmington Morning Star: 1t takes
nine a loads of Irvine, weighing 100
tons, to bind the. wheat cut on the
Dalrymple wheat farm in Dakota
Thirty electrical roads now being built
will be running before winter shall set
in.
E. City Economist: q. S. Fish Com
missioner Worth is now in this part of
the State collecting statistics as to the
catch Of fish during the last season,
and other information about fish in
this section. He was in Washington,
n. c., last week and will be here in a
day or two.
Mcdowell Bugle:: We are gratified
to learn, as every citizen of the county
must be, that a vein of apparently in
exhanstible iron ore has been found in
the North Cove, Mcdowell county.
The vein was discovered in the deep
gap of Honeycutt Mountain, and runs
diagonally northeast across the noun
tain. 1t is observed to be about forty
feet wide and exposed about a quarter
of a mile.
Statesville Landmark: The reports
of the agricultural departments and
the reports of farmers as we'll, indicate
that the crops of cotton and corn will
not be as full as it was thought a
month ago they would be. There
will be enough, and enough is as
good as a feast, and we all should
be duly thankful for what there is and
is to be; but the rains held out too
long for the crops, and in this State
and section they are off at least ten
per cent. from SIX weeks ago. q
f Wilmington Messenger: The last
Legislature provided (by Oh. 355,
Laws 1887 that SW county whose
county commissiopefs may so elect,
may work it's prisoners sentenced to
jail, also its penitentiary \convicts, sen
fenced to less than ten years, on the
public roads of the county. Iredell,
Rowan, Davidson and other counties
are SO doing. The result is that pris-
oners instead of lying idle in jails, are
working the roads, and the number
being sent to the ~penitentiary is dimin-
ishing. This may soon solve the pen
itentiary problem.
Kinston Free Press: While at La
Grange Friday we saw in front of Nj.
Simeon Wooten's store several beauti-
full stalks of cotton raised by Mr..
Henry Humphrey, Of Onslow county,
n Of which had, when he started
from home with them, 116 bolls on it.
He says. his cotton is all: as we'll fruited
IN proportion to size as were those and
that he attributes it to the peculiar
kind Of cotton planted-called the
"hulong," originating from Georgia.
He brought those stalks to Kinston
the next day and left them on exhibi-
ton at the railroad depot. MI. Hum
phrey said that he expected to take
some stalks to the fairs with 17O bolls
on them.
High Point Enterprise: Messrs. J. G.
Dorsett, Thos. A. Finch, John Dorsett
and j. I. Arnold are, four farmers
who join farms in Randolph county.
This year their wheat acreage aggre-
gated l26 acres and the total amount
grown by them was 1858 bushels or
an average of 81 LIS bushels per acre.
This is the way to grow wheat and
there is money in it, even at the pres
ent low price.-Capt. W. H. Snow
grew l 1000 bushels of corn on his plan
tatlon near hear this year, and the
most OF it he Kindred in the modern
tobacco barn, tits being ground into
thread meal by Hammer e. Brown and